COMPLIANT and RIGID MECHANISMS RESEARCH

Hacettepe University

 

 

Research Area

 

Our research area is the analysis and design of rigid and compliant mechanisms. However, we especially focused on the design of compliant mechanisms. We can analyze the compliant mechanisms by FEA and with by building a test setup in our laboratory.

 

Journal Publications (under SCI coverage): 

Volkan Parlaktaş, "Spatial Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism", Mechanism and Machine Theory,  Underreview

Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, ”Compliant cardan universal joint”, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design,  To appear

Volkan Parlaktaş, Engin Tanık, ”Compliant spatial slider-crank (RSSP) mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory,  46 (2011) 1707–1718

Engin Tanık, ”Transmission angle in compliant slider-crank mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory,  46 (2011) 1623–1632

Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, “A new type of compliant spatial four-bar (RSSR) mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 46(2011) 593–606

Engin Tanık, Eres Söylemez, “Analysis and design of a compliant variable stroke mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 45 (2010) 1385–1394

Volkan Parlaktaş, Eres Söylemez, Engin Tanık, “On the synthesis of a geared four-bar mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 45 (2010) 1142–1152

 

Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings:

Engin Tanık, Eres Söylemez, "Variable Structure Mechanisms Design", The Ninth IFToMM International Symposium on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, Bucharest, Romania, September 1-4, 2005

Eres Söylemez, Volkan Parlaktaş, "Use of Spatial Four-Bar Mechanism for the Synthesis of  Mechanisms with Large Dwell", Proceedings IFToMM on 11th Congress in Mechanisms and Machine Science, April 2004, Tianjin (China), pp.1103-1008.

 

Videos of some of our studies:

Compliant Universal Joint

Compliant SpatialSlider-Crank (RSSP) Mechanism

Compliant Spatial Four-Bar (RSSR) Mechanism

A two degrees of freedom underactuated mechanism

Geared four-bar mechanism

A large dwell cascade four-bar mechanisms